The Five Stages of Open Source Volunteering

Riehle D (2015)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2015

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

Edited Volumes: Crowdsourcing

Pages Range: 25–38

URI: http://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FAU-CS-2014-01-Five-Stages.pdf

Abstract

Today’s soft­ware sys­tems build on open source soft­ware. Thus, we need to under­stand how to suc­cess­ful­ly cre­ate, nur­ture, and mature the soft­ware devel­op­ment com­mu­ni­ties of the­se open source projects. In this arti­cle, we review and dis­cuss best prac­tices of the open source vol­un­teer­ing and recruit­ment process that suc­cess­ful project lead­ers are using to lead their projects to suc­cess. We com­bine the per­spec­tive of the vol­un­teer, look­ing at a project, with the per­spec­tive of a project lead­er, look­ing to find addi­tion­al vol­un­teers for the project. We iden­ti­fy a five-stage process con­sist­ing of a con­nect­ing, under­stand­ing, engag­ing, per­form­ing, and lead­ing stage. The under­ly­ing best prac­tices, when applied, sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase the chance of an open source project being suc­cess­ful.

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APA:

Riehle, D. (2015). The Five Stages of Open Source Volunteering. In Li, Wei; Huhns, Michael N.; Tsai, Wei-Tek; Wu, Wen­jun (Eds.), Crowdsourcing. (pp. 25–38). Springer-Verlag.

MLA:

Riehle, Dirk. "The Five Stages of Open Source Volunteering." Crowdsourcing. Ed. Li, Wei; Huhns, Michael N.; Tsai, Wei-Tek; Wu, Wen­jun, Springer-Verlag, 2015. 25–38.

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